my friend and i were going to study a language together and wound up having to cancel our plans due to scheduling pressures, but! through research we came across a really cool resource for reading in a TON of languages: bloom library!
as you can see, it has a lot of books for languages that are usually a bit harder to find materials for—we were going to use it for kyrgyz, for example, which has over 1000 books, which was really hard to find textbook materials for otherwise. as you can see it also has books with audio options, which would be really useful for pronunciation checking. as far as i can tell, everything on the site is free as well.
Checked it out and the catalogue is great for Indonesian and German. Not much for Japanese and for Korean it seems to be all in the category of spiritual at the moment.
Hi! my name is Vance, and welcome to my blog. here you’ll find me obsessing about japanese, laughing affectionately at german, gushing over lithuanian, and simping for icelandic among others. languages and linguistics are my passion, and I want to share them with others! aside from languages, I also like to color, write stories, and play pokemon. it’s nice to have you here ^_^
Languages I Speak: English (C2), Spanish (C2), Japanese (N2), German (B2), Lithuanian (A2) Languages of Interest: Latvian, Icelandic, Polish, Old Prussian, Romanian, ASL
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My name is Mack and I’m a grad student from Germany. I have a background in linguistics, language studies and translation studies. I’m currently applying for a PhD in German/Translation Studies.
I use they/them in English and hen/er/sie in German. For all other languages, improvise.
I speak English and German fluently and my Spanish is on an intermediate to advanced level. I’m currently focusing on Yiddish, Romanian, Croatian and Spanish. I’ve dabbled in a lot of languages and post about all kinds of languages including ones I’m not learning.
You can expect posts about languages, linguistics, translation, grad school, including a lot of resources. I’m mostly known for my MEGA folder full of study resources which is linked here.
